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He got on ith his colleagues, but he often used enthusiaset the job done, and he spent the rest of his tis seized from the street back to the very people it had been seized frohthe kind of guy no one took seriously, but soes

He’d been involved for a time with DCI Amanda Baker, back when she was hot, he hastened to tell hi that extra streaether for a tiraced, and their relationship fizzled out She was always there though, like a thorn in his side, calling in favours and threatening to shop hi fines, and once altered the results of a DUI which would have resulted in her losing her licence

This, however was serious She was asking tooin his pocket and he pulled it out He saw that he had e and was now on sround The phone showed it was the woin and password for HOLMES,’ she said There was no hello, or how are you? Or any kind of deference in her tone She still spoke to him like she did when she was his boss

‘I’m at work,’ he hissed, and I’ve told you I will help with passing on any info, but you will leave a digital sta into MY account’

‘Crawford, don’t piss ot farthe case your working on Stuff you have access to’

‘What do you need it for?’

‘I have a hunch I’et to the bottom of it, I will let you have it exclusively, and you can take all the glory… et that proh

‘A in, I’ about any around the cottage, most of the area had been cleared and there was only the whine of one striripped the phone, turned his back on it all, and with a heavy heart he gave her his login details

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Two hours after forensics went inside the cottage, Nils called Erika, Moss and Peterson over They suited up outside, pulling on the blue all-in-one paper suits over their clothes, and then the face an a few ht onto the living roolass At first Erika thought was a black and white patterned floor

‘It’s bird shit,’ said Nils ‘We’ve scraped a little away at the edges and it’s parquet floor underneath

‘Looks quite good Soet a floor like that,’ said Moss